The answer to all questions is found when you start with God.
The solution to all problems is understood when you begin with scripture.
Truth. God's word is truth.
Who would deny that the answer to all questions is found when you start with truth?
Yet many resist the idea of starting with God. Why? Because they deny the truth of God.
Let God be the beginning of whatever you build. Let God be the foundation.
Let Him be the basis for whatever you do or want to understand.
It is certain that you don't know the truth any better than God.
If you do not admit the truth of God then you don't know the truth at all.
God's word is truth. Jesus is the word made flesh. Jesus is the Truth.
Let God be to you what He says He is. He is bigger than you. He knows more than you. He knows more than any of us.
Let Him be to you what He is. Then you will know the truth.
You want to solve a problem that you define in terms of race?
You want to solve a problem that you define in terms of education?
You want to solve a problem that you define in terms of money?
You want to solve a problem that you define in terms of culture?
It doesn't matter what the problem is. God is the answer.
Now, let's see how we can understand more about this.
You hear me saying God is the beginning of any solution,
and you hear me saying God is the answer for any situation?
The wisdom comes in the focus, the rightly dividing of His truth.
When the races will stop focusing on the color of skin, like Peter stopped focusing on the wind and the waves, their problems of race can be solved when they look to Jesus, just like Peter's problem was solved. But we have to take our eyes off the stormy conflicts, and put our eyes upon Jesus the beginning and end of our faith!
Scripture teaches all who will learn that we should not look on the outward appearance of man.
Man looks on the outward, but God sees the heart. That is or should be our goal as believers in God through faith of Jesus Christ.
That would solve the so-called race problem. It's not as much a race problem as it is a SIN problem.
Anyone, no matter their color, who has a problem with color, is disobeying the clear guidance of scripture to judge not by outward appearance but by the heart.
See how simple things become when we just have enough fear of God to obey Him, to do what He says instead of making up excuses to do things our own way.
When you begin with Him in the truth of God as the foundation for all your understanding, then your situation becomes clear in the light of God.
When your situation is clear, then you can walk on water like Peter.
Which is to say, then you will stop sinking in the storm. Peter stopped sinking when he took his eyes off the physical and looked upon Christ Jesus.
You will stop sinking, as did Peter, when you, like Peter, set your eyes upon Jesus.
What does that mean? It's not the physical man. Paul wrote that once he knew Jesus according to the flesh, but now no more according to the flesh, but by the spirit.
Jesus is one with the Father and He is the living word of God, and one way we know Him is by scripture. One way we perceive Him is according to scripture as it is made alive to us by the Holy Spirit of God.
Scripture says now we know Him in part. So we should not expect to know everything about Him or the word of God so long as it is called today. But we can and do know Him in part.
One part I know is this: There is neither Jew nor Greek in Christ, for we are all of the same family. The worldly differentiation does not apply to our spiritual family. We are the children of God. We have all been adopted into His family. One family, one seed which is Christ.
So that family of God is the truth, and knowing that truth sets us free from the problem of race and skin color. Thank God. Let us be faithful to God in this matter. We are one family in Christ.
Some people think there's problems to solve in what they call education.
Let them begin with God as the foundation for all they teach and God as the fruit or goal of all they teach, and they will find the problems disappeared, gone. Only solutions remain to be put into action. There is no true training of a mind without God, only vain imaginations and deceptions.
God holds all things together by the power of His word. By His word all things consist, and by Him. Knowing the truth of Him is the only true foundation for knowing any observable phenomenon. A man who observes a phenomenon and knows not God, that man can not understand as he should.
Consider the so-called scientist who seeing a seed, teaches a child that that seed can grow into something different from which it came. Such foolishness is carefully reasoned out to the nth degree by vain imaginations, subtly going astray by a fraction of a degree with every page of logic. Such subtle deception snares any who would abandon the truth of God.
Failure to hold fast the form of sound words found in God's truth is the simple, most warned against sin. Eve failed and look what happened to her.
Adding to, taking from, or doing both in a confused way by changing the form of the words, all this is sin. Sin results in failure, despair, and death. Like climbing a mountain and thinking you can reach too far,...results in death. Following some vain imagination contrary to the truth of God's law, gravity, momentum, etc can cause death.
Especially on mountain situations.
But not all situations are mountainous. Not all failures result in immediate falling.
God's mercy overrides all things. That's why we're still alive. Where it not for His mercy, we'd all be dead for all the ignorant misguided failures in our life. God calls it sin. What is sin? Anything that steps outside of the boundaries of God's truth, and righteousness, and love,.... that is sin. God has made allowances for our sin. He has made a way for us to learn and repent that we might live. Jesus is the Way.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved, you and all your household.
Jesus died on that cross to pay the penalty of death by the shedding of His own blood for all. Your death for sin has been paid by Jesus Christ. The issue now is whether you will accept or reject the payment He made for you. If you reject His payment of Himself, then you have to pay yourself. For He will not make you take what He has given you. He let's you make that choice. He died for you. If you deny that, then so be it. If you accept it, then you have the advantage of total remission of all your sins and the gift of eternal life.
What will you say? Will you admit the truth that is witnessing in your heart? Will you confess with your mouth that same truth to show your agreement? (Romans 10:10)
The kingdom of heaven is like a tiny seed which is planted within you, at first it's so small, that you have to believe its there to even know its there; but after a while, it has grown till its the greatest tree in the forest. Believe, water that seed with the word of God and talk with God. He's with you to hear you and to help you.
All those old problems of money, culture, race, education, whatever they might be, ... they're all done away with in the flesh of Jesus Christ nailed to that cross.
The miracle of God is that He took all those things and nailed them to the cross in the flesh so that as Jesus died, those things died. All men died. As Paul says, We reckon then that as one man died for all, therefore all were dead. It happened just like Jesus said, "When I am lifted up, I will draw all men unto me." speaking of His crucifixion soon to come. All things were reconciled unto God through Jesus Christ and Him crucified. All things, whether they be things on earth or things in heaven, have been reconciled to His eternal loving plan and to Himself through Christ Jesus our Lord and our Savior. Only believe, and you will begin to see as the light grows stronger in your heart. For God has commanded His light to shine out of darkness in your heart that you might see and know the truth. Blessed are those who walk toward the light while they have the light, for as they walk toward the truth, coming into agreement with it, they shall see more and more and more.
Physicist who believe in the divine order of God know to look for order. They see patterns where others see chaos. They see life of God's truth where others see chaos and confusion of terms. But God is life, and in Him is no death at all, neither any disorder, and in Him are all things that He has created, so therefore, no chaos in the universe, when seen from God's point of view. That's what a godly physicist knows to look for, and that's why he finds the answers.
The same truth applies in all of life, not just the physical study of God's created world, but also the understanding of how people react and why. Those who see through the word of God see a different picture than those who look through their own or someone else's imagined fantasy contrary to truth. But a man can believe a lie, even a lie backed up by a multitude of other deceived minds, and be persuaded that all the reasoning has proved him right; not knowing that all the reasoning was either based on something besides the truth of God at the beginning or the reasoning was polluted when somewhere somehow a subtle deception snuck in. In some small way, a degree off course at England causes the sailing ship to miss its port by a thousand miles. So it is with extended steps of micro-reasoning. Never accept any conclusion contrary to scripture. Let God be true and every man a liar.
Keep your eyes upon Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith. He is the Beginning and the End of your journey. He is All and All to those who believe. And through wisdom you come to see the different parts of the manifestation which is Christ, the salvation of God. Your problems are solved. God is the Salvation which you have heretofore called the solution. Men of Mar's Hill, the unknown God you have worshipped as calling Him the Solution, I now reveal to you as being Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, born of the virgin Mary, crucified, dead, and buried who rose on the third day to prove for all the world that He is the Christ.
Let all your teaching of little children be with God as the beginning, expecting to see Christ as the root and the fruit of all your labor; else all is in vain and accomplishes no more than vanity if it is not done in Christ.
I've heard of several conferences where people were trying to sort out their differences and maintain their own identities. Many of these conferences focus on maintaining some identity. God tells us to seek His identity. There is neither Jew nor Greek in Christ. There is neither black nor white, red or yellow, but all are one. It is not a matter of preserving our individual identity but rather of discovering who He is. To know Him, that is the first step to all problems. To follow Him is the sequence of steps for the answer to all problems.
Who is willing to deny themselves and follow Jesus? Who is willing to say with the apostles they are in the world but not of the world, they are of the kingdom of heaven? Who is willing to seek the things of God instead of the things of this present world? They shall see the answers.
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